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Killer whales are able to learn to speak Dolphin. When killer whales were socialized with bottlenose dolphins at a water facility, they changed the types of sounds they made to resemble those of their social partners.

After complaints about baggage wait times, Houston airport moved the baggage claim farther away. The walk took longer than the wait and the complaints dropped to nearly zero.

Disney almost created a theme park for villains called "The Dark Kingdom."

A man once tried to sue Pepsi because he found a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew. Pepsi defended the case by proving that Mountain Dew can dissolve a mouse in a few months.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas, the '90s child actor also simply known as JTT, walked away from fame at the height of his career to study philosophy at Harvard.

Henry Shrapnel in 1784 invented a hollow cannon ball that would be filled with shot and gun powder and exploded over the enemies.

Water is used in rice fields to prevent weeds. Rice doesn't actually need that much water, but since it can thrive in such conditions, whereas weeds cannot, it's a natural protection against them.

In 2014 only seven humans were killed by sharks while over 63,000,000 sharks were killed by humans.

We use "lbs" as shorthand for pounds in English because of the latin phrase "libra poundo", which is also where we derived "pounds" from.

IBM had to delete 'Urban Dictionary' Data from The Watson Super Computer System because the machine started cursing.